Delete files older than 7 days with log file and history

[newbie2013]

I am using below command in batch file to delete files older than 7 days and scheduled it daily. It is working fine.

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forfiles -p "D:\Target\ReportOutput" -s -m *.* /D -7 /C "cmd /c del @path"

I would like to track the files it is deleting daily. Please give me a code to have a log file and it has to generate a new log file daily.

OS: Microsoft Windows Server 2003.

Many thanks in advance for looking at this enquiry. I'll look forward to hear from you.

[penpen]

I'm running Windows xp (with no forfiles) so i can't test it, but i think the following may help you:

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forfiles -p "D:\Target\ReportOutput" -s -m *.* /D -7 /C "cmd /q /d /c del @path & >> LogDel_%date%.log echo @path"

Maybe the ampersand has to be escaped based on how forfiles executes the command at the end.

penpen

[foxidrive]

It does work in Windows 8 penpen, but depends on the %date% format and can be simplified.

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forfiles -p "D:\Target\ReportOutput" -s -m *.* /D -7 /C "cmd /c del @path & echo @path">> "LogDel_%date:/=-%.log"

Using penpen's code, the log file is created in the folder shown.

The version above should work in more regions (because of %date% differences) and writes the log file in the same folder as the batch file.